NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting rtmpdump package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.46% (63rd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RTMPDUMP-9680257
  • published10 Apr 2025
  • disclosed6 Feb 2025
  • creditDave McDaniel

Introduced: 6 Feb 2025

CVE-2015-8272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for rtmpdump.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in rtmpsrv.c, which takes a stream as input without validation of its playpath value. This allows an attacker to trigger a crash by convincing a user to open a malicious RTMP stream.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1